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Cannes: Spoof Specialists Drive Into ‘Fast And Furious’ Parody ‘Superfast!’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 10:21am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, K5 International, Peter Safran

Superfast! is a send-up of the Fast And Furious movies from the team behind Date Movie, Meet The Spartans and Vampires Suck. K5 International has boarded sales on the comedy which it’s offering to buyers in Cannes. Written and directed by duo Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the film is produced and fully financed by Peter Safran of The Safran Company. Pre-sales on the movie so far include Russia (Volga), Germany (Wild Bunch), Italy (Lucky Red), the Middle East (Falcon) and Latin America (Sun). Further deals are pending. K5 International co-founders Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur say the Fast And Furious franchise is “crying out for some high octane comedy collisions and these are the guys to get a speeding ticket doing it.”

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Berlin: K5 To Start Sales On Jennifer Aniston, Mark Duplass, Ben Kingsley Romantic Comedy ‘Convention’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 2:21am PSTTags: EFM, Jennifer Aniston, K5 International, Mark Duplass

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s another package that’s come together just ahead of the EFM. K5 International will start sales and CAA and ICM Partners will co-rep North American rights in Berlin on Convention, the second feature from A Many Splintered Thing director Justin Reardon. Jennifer Aniston, Mark Duplass and Ben Kingsley are attached to star in the romantic comedy that shoots this summer. A Charlie Kaufman-esque mind-bender, the premise finds mild-mannered Paul (Duplass) and his feisty sister Abby (Aniston) setting out to change the box storage world with Paul’s invention of the 5-sided box. Kingsley plays a maniacal box magnate who seeks to thwart Paul and Abby’s success. Meanwhile, the invention also risks ripping a giant hole in the fabric of the universe. When Paul realizes the damage he’s causing, he races against time to put the galaxy back in order and save the girl of his dreams.

Reardon is best known as the co-creator and art director for Budweiser’s Wassup! and Howyadoin’ campaigns. He’s just finished production on his feature debut, A Many Splintered Thing, with Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Giovanni Ribisi, Topher Grace and Luke Wilson. Reardon will shoot Convention in the summer from a script by Christopher Painter who’s done TV work on toons like The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Tom And Jerry Tales. Paul Schiff (Rushmore) and Tai Duncan (Red Machine, The Air I Breathe) are producing.

K5 Partners Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur say, “We have an absolute dream cast for this dream comedy concept. It brings to mind films like Being John Malkovich, and Eternal Sunshine, and in Justin Reardon we have a wildly talented and totally visionary director.” Read More »

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Berlin: K5 Boards Henry Selick’s ‘The Shadow King’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 10:01pm PSTTags: EFM, K5 International

Henry Selick, the genius behind THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and the Oscar® and BAFTA nominated CORALINE, is moving forward with Academy Award nominated producer Josh Penn (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD) and K5 International on his latest feature THE SHADOW KING.

THE SHADOW KING is a deliciously magical tale about nine-year-old New York orphan Hap who hides his fantastically weird hands with long fingers from a cruel world. But when a living shadow girl teaches him to make amazing hand shadows that come to life, his hands become incredible weapons in a shadow war against a ravenous monster bent on killing Hap’s brother Richard and ultimately destroying New York.

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Sundance: K5 To Sell International For ‘Mother Of George’, ‘Narco Cultura’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 21, 2013 @ 8:00am PSTTags: K5 International, Mother Of George, Narco Cultura, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Wrap-Up
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K5 International has boarded two Sundance titles: Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother Of George, playing in the U.S. Narrative Competition section, and Shaul Schwarz’s Narco Cultura in the U.S. Documentary Competition. The company is handling … Read More »

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